The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 386] 
                                  
                                  with scrip and pyked staf y-touked hye
                                
                                  In euery hous and gan to pore and prye
                                
                                  And beggyd mele or chese or ellis corn
                                
                                  his felaw had a staf typped with horn
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                                  A payr of tablis al of yuory
                                
                                  And a poyntel y-polischt fetisly
                                
                                  And wroot þe names alway as he stood
                                
                                  Of alle folk that ȝaf him eny good
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                                  Ascaunce þat he wolde for hem preye
                                
                                  Ȝif vs a busshel . whet or malt or reye
                                
                                  A goddes kichil or a trip of chese
                                
                                  Or elles what ȝow list we may not chese
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                                  A goddes halpeny or a masse peny
                                
                                  Or ȝif vs of ȝoure braune if ȝe haue eny
                                
                                  A dagoun of ȝour blanket leeue dame
                                
                                  Oure suster deer . lo her I write ȝour name
                                  Line 1752 
                                
                                  Bacoun or beef or such þing as we fynde
                                
                                  A stourdy harlot ay went hem by hynde
                                
                                  That was her hostis man and bar a sak
                                
                                  And what men ȝaf hem layd it on his bak
                                  Line 1756 
                                
                                  And whan þat he was out atte dore anoon
                                
                                  he planed out þe names euerychoon
                                
                                  That he biforn had writen in his tablis
                                
                                  He serued hem wiþ nyfles and wiþ fablis
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                                  Nay þer þou lixt þou sompnour sayd þe frere
                                
                                  Pees quod our host for cristes moder deere
                                
                                  Tel forþ þy tale and spare it not at al
                                
                                  So thriue I quod þe sompnour so I schal
                                  Line 1764 
                                
                                  So long he wente hous by hous til he [folio 109b] 
                                
                                  Cam til an hous þer he was wont to be
                                
                                  Refresshid mor þan in an hundrid placis .
                                
                                  Syk lay þe housbond man whos þat þe place is .
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                                  Bedred vpon a couche lowe he lay
                                
                                  Deus hic quod he O thomas frend good day
                                
                                  Sayde þis frere al curteysly and softe /
                                
                                  O. Thomas god ȝeld it ȝow ful ofte

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 246
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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